STAFF at Ashlawn School believe one of their students has one of the strongest sets of A-Level results in the country.
Dan Hobson scored five A*s and a Distinction, and will be heading off to study Electronic Engineering at the University of Southampton.
Dan said: “I am absolutely over the moon. The school has just been fantastic since I started in Year 7. They allowed me to sit my GCSE maths two years early, so I could do more A-Levels and focus on more complex maths subjects.”
Fellow students Lois Cumbers, Isabelle Charnley, Jack Spears, Joesph Morrall, Pranav Kumar, Marissa Patel and Lauren Diesch all had a clean sweep of A* and A grades too.
Lauren’s mum Nicki Diesch said: “I am just so proud of Lauren and all of her friends. In fact, I couldn’t be any prouder. The school has just been amazing. The staff are incredible and the students support each other all of the way.”
Twins Sundip and Shanil Patel, who studied the same GCSEs and A-Levels at Ashlawn, are now going to the same university to study the same course. The pair are heading to the University of Nottingham to study Medical Physics after securing almost exactly the same results.
Sundip said: “We do a lot of things together. We even have managed to obtain rooms next to each other in the student accommodation at university.”
Other students have landed places at leading universities to study dentistry and medicine, while others have secured places on prestigious Apprenticeship programmes such as those run by JLR and Mercedes.
Acting head teacher Liz Cheney said: “Across almost every measure our students have raised the bar on the results from last year. Given that there have been some new, more challenging, specifications our staff and students should be incredibly proud of their achievements.”
